CANOES.

Inangahua Times, Issue 19, 2 October 1878, Page 2

CANOES.

What tho byciclo is on land, say* n writer in tho Sun Francisco Bulletin, tho ennoo is on wntor. If cither lm:> nnj| adaptation to a known end, it is to up.sjfl to tnntaliso tlio highost hopes, to brinp^H suxldon emergencies. Thor« is n X^R denl of afTi-ctiition about the wh< lo bij^^ ness of oanoing. 'Ilio In linn in his birch* bark ennoo is nil very well. Ho may huyo dono tho best bo could under (bo oircumstuncos. But a whito mm in n pnper ennoo is not nil very woll. Ho has not dono thu best ho could, but triflon with Into in n rudo contrivance, n cocklo shell, which only nn export enn manage, nnd even thon not with ontiro safety. Two or Ihrcc amusing books hnvo boon written nbout ennoing, which linvo served to generate a canoo JWcr. The Hob Jtoy oiutoo 19 now tho model. This or that individual hns puddled v (liousnnd miles in n canoe. Well, what of iiP So men luivo ridden a thousand miles on n buckbo'ird, but wo ahull never njjnin soo that vehiclo in uso on oominon rondn. The byciolo has taken on another wheel nitor fbutonin« (ho uosos nnd bumping the bonds of a wbolo gonerotion ; and now n* iv Uryciolo' it is a imisaneo. The oth>r day nn English cleric received a Rob l?oy cunoo from ilCngland. 'It is ju.it the thing, you know." In that onnoo he attempted to cross frcm lugol Island to Oakland. Of course ho was drowned. But thon thoro was tho delicious excitement kopt up until tho lnst moment. At what moment will this rudo contrivance upsot, this thing which is on ofloneo to Noptuno nnd to every sen god of nncicnt or modern mythology P Tho Soulh So.i Islander mako tho canoe a tolerably snfo craft by contriving outriggors. It ciinnot upoot, nnd if it did, tin amphibious man takos nx kindly to one element as to the other. But n Inndlubber in n modern ennco lias tuken n pretty Hiroot way of gotting across the Styx as soon ns possi bio.